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New Samford entrepreneurship program will help tackle social needs

Saturday, January 03, 2009

ROY L. WILLIAMS

News staff writer

Samford University has started offering a new degree in
social entrepreneurship, a program designed to equip
students aiming for careers in public administration or
leading nonprofit agencies and businesses supporting social
causes.

The goal is to prepare future nonprofit, corporate, and
government leaders with the skills essential to helping
Alabama leaders deal with social needs such as fighting
poverty, improving the environment and community
development, said Jeremy Thornton, an assistant economics
professor in the Brock School of Business and social
entrepreneurship program coordinator.

The curriculum will focus on three areas - theory,
practice and ethics - and work closely with the Brock School
of Business' Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and
Leadership, started last year through a gift from Lexmark
Inc. Chairman Marvin L. Mann and named for his late wife.

"We are responding to a need from a lot of our
students desiring to go into the nonprofit sector or
interested in working at for-profit companies that have a
social component," Thornton said. "Those type of
careers require different skills from regular business
courses."

The social entrepreneurship minor requires 22 credit
hours, with classes on accounting concepts, economics,
marketing and personal finance. The final course is entitled
Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management.

John Knapp, hired from Georgia State University in Atlanta
to run the ethics center, has experience creating ethics
programs and has started similar efforts at Clemson and
Kennesaw State. He is glad to see ethics play a vital role
in Samford's social entrepreneurship program, he said.

"It is a privilege to be here at Samford and play a
role in the formation of students prepared to lead
professional lives with meaning," Knapp said.
"Strong ethics are at the core of good
leadership."

Besides Thornton, other instructors for the social entrepreneurship program are marketing professor Betsy Holloway, statistics professor Tom Woolley and Franz Lohrke, chair of Samford's marketing and management department. Lohrke is also coordinator of Samford's new entrepreneurship program major started last fall....

New Samford entrepreneurship program will help tackle social needs

Saturday, January 03, 2009

ROY L. WILLIAMS

News staff writer

Samford University has started offering a new degree in
social entrepreneurship, a program designed to equip
students aiming for careers in public administration or
leading nonprofit agencies and businesses supporting social
causes.

The goal is to prepare future nonprofit, corporate, and
government leaders with the skills essential to helping
Alabama leaders deal with social needs such as fighting
poverty, improving the environment and community
development, said Jeremy Thornton, an assistant economics
professor in the Brock School of Business and social
entrepreneurship program coordinator.

The curriculum will focus on three areas - theory,
practice and ethics - and work closely with the Brock School
of Business' Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and
Leadership, started last year through a gift from Lexmark
Inc. Chairman Marvin L. Mann and named for his late wife.

"We are responding to a need from a lot of our
students desiring to go into the nonprofit sector or
interested in working at for-profit companies that have a
social component," Thornton said. "Those type of
careers require different skills from regular business
courses."

The social entrepreneurship minor requires 22 credit
hours, with classes on accounting concepts, economics,
marketing and personal finance. The final course is entitled
Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management.

John Knapp, hired from Georgia State University in Atlanta
to run the ethics center, has experience creating ethics
programs and has started similar efforts at Clemson and
Kennesaw State. He is glad to see ethics play a vital role
in Samford's social entrepreneurship program, he said.

"It is a privilege to be here at Samford and play a
role in the formation of students prepared to lead
professional lives with meaning," Knapp said.
"Strong ethics are at the core of good
leadership."

Besides Thornton, other instructors for the social entrepreneurship program are marketing professor Betsy Holloway, statistics professor Tom Woolley and Franz Lohrke, chair of Samford's marketing and management department. Lohrke is also coordinator of Samford's new entrepreneurship program major started last fall....